TIME Magazine's cover story is a journalistic, moral and logical disaster. It pictures hacktivist Aaron Swartz, NSA whistleblowers Edward Snowden & WikiLeaks defendant Bradley Manning under the screaming words, "THE INFORMERS."
It equates whistleblowers to spies, playing into the government's ill-advised, overzealous war on whistleblowers, and information more generally, using the Espionage Act bludgeon (and its cyber counterparts like the Computer Fraud Abuse Act) to prosecute people who reveal things the government doesn't like, or worse, are illegal.